I left my friends to their own devices after that as I had some hunting to do. I felt like trying my new siren powers while I was at it. I sort of forgot to mention what exactly Phase trance did after I got it but i'll fix that now. As I had long theorized from the records of it I found on Athenas Phase trance changed based on who held it due to the concepts of {soul}, {Mind} and {energy} it held sway over. In my case the power set allowed me to sort of store a kind of psychic engram of the things I devour with my original powers to use as temporary minions.-
It would not be much of an exaggeration to say I collected souls to obey my will after death. The only hitch was that I could only have seven at a time and once I used one it was gone forever. Additionally there were two ways I could summon the things that I had figured out so far. The first was by paying a lump sum of lifeforce to manifest the chosen soul until it either ran out of energy or was destroyed. The second was to slowly trickle lifeforce to the summoned soul effectively making it permanent unless it was destroyed.-
I hadn't gotten much practice with the power yet honestly as most things failed to impress me enough to warrant me adding them to my collection. One thing I did test however was how much of the mind remained of these souls after being added to my collection using a bandit on Pandora. The answer was most of it apparently. The test subject bandit was less than thrilled about the idea of being a soul puppet and offed himself the first chance he got, interesting stuff let me tell you.-
My second test went better after I enforced a command not to kill themselves. I legitimately don't think I've ever seen a bandit so cooperative once I told him I'd let him perma die if he helped me test the full extent of my new power. Thanks to those tests I learned that I can use my other powers through the constructs which actually extends my range massively as the constructs are unbound by distance unless I was using the trickle method.-
In theory I should be able to use my other powers through a construct even if I was on the opposite side of the universe from it. I had a theory it had something to do with the concepts of {soul} and {Mind} but couldn't definitively prove that yet. Regardless that made me much much more dangerous now as I didn't even personally need to be present to kill someone now, I just needed to send a construct with my regards. There was a bit of debate about the morals of this power among my friends but we couldn't agree whether this was too far or just far enough.-
None of us were saints but all of us agreed that enslaving souls was not exactly morally upright territory. Still the way I saw it so long as I didn't use the power on innocent people the moral dilemma could be overlooked for the most part. After I separated from my friends and went on a rampage in the local Jabber groups I ended up with three new souls to use that came from mutated Jabbers. The first was a Jabber that was an omega standing at well over eight feet tall and covered in dense muscles.-
It wore a wooden mask with slits in it to see out of and used a large hammer made of a large rock roughly bound to a thick piece of wood. The second was a Jabber that had an elemental body(shock specifically). The third however was unique as it had two tails that it used to great effect. Out of nearly seventy Jabbers finding these three was quite nice and I had gathered enough body traits to gain a stack of [Supreme body]. There wasn't much of a shift in my body when I got it but I felt like I had stepped away from the edge of death at least which was a massive relief.-
When I had told my friends that I was barely resisting the effect of the universes[destruction] concept I was not joking. I was almost afraid to even touch those powers until now as it felt as though I was standing on the edge of a cliff with only a single foot and piss poor balance. All it would have taken was one wrong puff of air to send me over that edge. Now I wasn't out of danger entirely but at least I had both feet down now and it'd take a bit more than a stiff breeze to ruin me.-
Not a lot of breathing room but I'll take what I can get at this point. It took me all day to hunt this amount down and I even lost out in terms of lifeforce as after taking the lifeforce from the corpses I still was in the hole 75,200 units. Nothing for it unfortunately as until I was good and stabilized I couldn't go back to being frugal with my lifeforce.-
I provided dinner this time using my food maker as even the old man had asked me for the stuff. Not that I could blame any of them for it as the sheer quality of the food made by my maker thingy had no room for human error and was thus as close to perfection the foods in question could get. I had to admit that out of all of the things the Eridians made this had to be one of the biggest flexes. Really just the pinnacle of house appliances right here let me tell you, couldn't live without it.-
Anyways after dinner we turned in for the night and got up in the morning. After spending so long on Pandora it felt weird as shit to have a day cycle that wasn't frankly insane. Still I didn't waste any daylight and set out with Ladon to hunt for Jabbers. Had to take the fast travel station to the deeper parts of the planet though since I had scared off most of the fuckers from the area by the mansion with my massacre the day prior. I left the Saurians to Ladon who relished the bloody thrill of it all.-
With my senses finding the nearest Jabber group took me at most five minutes and that was just because of travel time. It was a decent sized one with roughly fifteen members lead by a flaming bodied one. They died without much resistance and I added the leader to my soul collection. The sting of losing lifeforce for the body traits sucked but I ignored it. I took the lifeforce from Ladon's kills during this time and sent it back to him as was our usual with a bit less as there was a Grog with a [Minor regeneration] trait that I took for myself.
___________________________________________
https://www.pa treon.com/user?u=81578854#:~:text=pa treon.com/pa treon_loskro
_______________________________________________
Alexander Drake
Lifeforce: 1,051,302
Integrated Traits: [Clever mind-Rare grade],[Enhanced senses-Epic grade]X2, , [Supreme armored hide-Epic grade]X2, [Energy projection-Legendary grade], [Superior vitality-Epic grade]X3,[Lesser dragon breath-Epic grade],[Regeneration-Epic grade]X2, [Disease resistance-Epic grade],[Amphibious lungs-Uncommon grade], [Thermal sensing-Uncommon grade], [Water resistance-Common grade],[Active camouflage-Epic grade], [Eridian engineering expertise-Mythical grade], [Efficient lungs-Rare grade]x2, [Biometallic bones-Epic grade], [Quick thinking-Rare grade], [Minor spatial awareness-Epic grade], [Siren(Phaselock)(Altered)-Mythical grade], [Adrenal rush-Rare grade], [Mechanical engineering expertise-Rare grade]X3, [Gunsmithing expertise(degrading)-Common grade]X3, [Mechanical Savant-Epic grade], [Embodiment of destruction(partial)-Mythical grade], [Siren(Phasetrance)-Mythical grade], [Supreme body-Legendary grade]X2, [Martial mastery-Epic grade], [Tinkering instinct-Rare grade]
Stored traits: [Agelessness-Legendary grade]